One: The prototype and background of the case that the devil forced me to do
In the early 80s, the United States began to gradually come out of the haze of the 70s, the U.S. economy began to develop steadily and prepare for the outbreak of the 90s, while conservative religious figures led by Protestant Christians began to worry that video games, music and movies would gradually devour children's physical and mental health and even soul, and then Satan would return to the human world through this method, coupled with the media, and finally a wave of Satanic panic that lasted for more than 10 years began. Throughout the 1980s, there were numerous reports of supernatural and Satanic incidents across the United States, and allegations of Satanic rituals between 1984 and 1986 became more complex and voluminous, and although there was no physical evidence for these allegations according to the investigation, at least 26 people were sent to prison.
Even if the Johnson incident has been hyped by several generations of media, it is difficult to verify the original appearance of the events of that year, but only in terms of scale and influence, it can only be said that this case is only one of the signs of the wave of Satanic panic in the 80s.
The Johnson incident, also known as the "the devil made me do it" case, is also the prototype of the Conjuring 3 case, of course, the historical case is far less thrilling than in the movie, the only evil thing that may be worse than the movie is that the exorcism scene at the beginning of Conjuring 3 has really existed in history, but there are six priests who have performed several exorcisms for David Glatzel in history.
The historical Arne Cheyenne Johnson was convicted of first-degree murder for negligently killing his landlord, Alan Bono, and according to the testimony of Bono's 11-year-old son, their house had been haunted before, so they did not dare to live in it themselves and rent it out. Johnson also defended that it was because the demon controlled his consciousness that he killed the landlord by mistake, and since he moved into the house, the whole person also began to experience symptoms of mental malaise and hallucinations. Based on the particularity of the case, the court invited the Warrens to perform an exorcism ceremony for Johnson, and in several exorcisms against Johnson, the Warrens found that he showed serious resistance, so they determined that Johnson was indeed possessed by a demon, and submitted evidence to the court, but Johnson was eventually sentenced to first-degree murder and 10 years in prison, but was finally released after 5 years.
Two: Try to break away from religious exorcism films
Conjuring 3 is already trying to break away from the category of religious exorcism films, as can be seen in the occultist played by Eugenie Bondurant. The occult derives from Western occultism, and its origins are generally believed to have arisen in ancient Egypt, Hebrew, Greco-Roman, and Christian religions. Historically, The Illuminati Illuminati belonged to one of the important genres.
Unlike wizards, the definition of the occult is more extensive, and the scope of their involvement is more mixed, this group of people often hold an open mind to contact, tolerate, absorb a variety of different schools of thought, and stay outside of religious thought to study mysterious affairs, of course, in the movie, there is no difference between the fallen mystic and the traditional evil wizard, which is essentially just an act of returning the soul through a shell. However, since the ancient concept of the occult and the occult has been introduced, the appearance of UFOs, aliens and various strange "unsolved mysteries of the world" in the subsequent summons should not be directly called the director to play, because they are also part of the study of the occult. Of course, you can also see that this is a common practice after director Jiang Lang's talent is exhausted.
Three: The efforts of a newcomer director
Back to this film, about director Michael Chavis, he began to work with Wen Ziren as a fan, before that he only had a few YouTube short films, and his resume may not be as reliable as other directors of the Conjuring Universe spin-off films, and the reason why he was able to be discovered by Wen Ziren and supported as the director began with the crying woman curse filming period.
It can be said that part of the reason why the Curse of the Weeping Woman has not been officially certified as a Conjuring Universe is that word of mouth is so overwhelming that it may affect the follow-up of this universe
However, Wen Ziren, who was supervising the set, noticed the difference in the young man who had been smiling on his face, and he found that Chavis, like himself, focused on the emotions of the characters, knew how to tell a good story, could spread his horror ideas, and finally handed him the summoning after weighing the pros and cons. However, in a responsible manner, Wen Ziren still spent a lot of time on the set to personally guide Michael Chavis shooting, and gave a lot of advice.
I believe that anyone who has seen Conjuring 3 should recognize that Chavis has surpassed the first two films as much as possible in terms of camera movement, picture style and editing, and he obviously cannot surpass a talented player like Wen Ziren in creating a horror atmosphere and rhythm, so it is not shameful to make a high-quality popcorn and relaxing horror film.
Four: The new demon that was cut down by Warner
In addition, it is also customary that almost every Conjuring movie will lead to several new iconic demons to warm up the spin-off: Annabelle at the beginning of Conjuring 1; Nun, Twister, and Werewolf in Annabelle 3.
Chavis admitted that Wen Ziren created a new demon image for the third part, he believes that all audiences will like this new demon, but unfortunately, when the film was released in the post-production test, Warner people thought that the film had become too complicated and lengthy, and then had to endure the pain of cutting love to delete all the scenes of this new demon and make up a big remake, only to wait for the right time to introduce it to the audience.
Five: A tribute (chaoxi) easter egg that you may have missed
1. The clip of Ed chasing Lauren with a hammer after being seduced by the occult is a clear tribute to the classic clip of Jack chasing Wendy in the horror film Shining.
2. The film begins with the scene where the child David is dragged into the water after entering his new home and is dragged into the water is also a clear tribute to the footage of Jason pulling people into the water on Friday the thirteenth.
3. The scene of David hiding in the bathroom after being possessed is almost the entire homage to Hitchcock's Horror.
4. The Souls series is heavily influenced by exorcists, so there are too many exorcist Easter eggs found throughout the Soul Conjuring Universe, the most obvious two of which are Father Burke in The Nun and Father Gordon in The Conjuring 3, almost copying the Exorcist's Father Maureen in 1:1.
5. There are two actresses who have played Judy, played by Sterling Jerris in the canon, and Judy in the spin-off film Annabelle 3 by McKenna Grace.
6. Several of the major child stars who have starred in the American drama Ghost Invasion have joined the Conjuring Universe: Little Marvel McKenna. Grace joined Annabelle 3; Lulu. Wilson joined Annabelle 2; Julian. Heeweed joined Conjuring 3
7. Wen Ziren's wife, Ingrid Bisu, died twice in the Soul-Summoning Universe, once as a nun and once as Jessica who fell off a cliff in The Conjuring 3. (Free labor, another saving)
8. Vera Famiga searches the ground for clues The scene has a large number of rats, which at first was conceived as a group of poisonous snakes, but during the filming, Chavis discovered that the actor snakes were not very cooperative with his work, and he also realized that the snake was the exclusive object of the nuns, so he eventually changed it to a bunch of rats.